Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 762 599 615
Rank change year-on-year -163 +16 -5
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 45 70 174
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.040% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.086% 0.21% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 25 26 82
10th Percentile £58,750 - £56,000
25th Percentile £74,000 £65,000 £66,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £92,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +6.67% -0.73%
75th Percentile £113,750 £87,188 £118,750
90th Percentile - £93,467 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £85,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +9.68% -6.06% +9.19%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 52,296 33,681 44,078
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.92% 68.55% 56.83%
Number of salaries quoted 32,033 17,457 23,171
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,625
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,749
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -1.96%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 15 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -140 45 £92,500 +15.63% 80
London -76 32 £100,000 +21.21% 59
UK excluding London -102 11 £85,000 +9.68% 35
Work from Home -41 9 £107,500 +40.98% 38
North West -14 7 £85,000 +30.77% 6
North of England -54 7 £85,000 +14.42% 13
Midlands -47 3 £102,500 +32.26% 2
East Midlands -27 2 - -
South West - 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £102,500 - 2

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) AWS
2 13 (28.89%) Azure
3 7 (15.56%) GCP
4 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (8.89%) Snowflake
6 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 3 (6.67%) SaaS
7 2 (4.44%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (4.44%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.44%) Collibra
7 2 (4.44%) Datadog
7 2 (4.44%) Figma
7 2 (4.44%) Google Analytics
7 2 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.44%) Mimecast
7 2 (4.44%) Serverless
7 2 (4.44%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.56%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (4.44%) Data Lake
3 2 (4.44%) Metadata
3 2 (4.44%) Mixpanel
3 2 (4.44%) Pinecone
3 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.22%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
3 1 (2.22%) GitLab
General
1 42 (93.33%) Banking
2 32 (71.11%) Finance
3 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Law
5 5 (11.11%) Corporate Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 5 (11.11%) Retail
6 4 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (6.67%) Legal
7 3 (6.67%) Marketing
8 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (2.22%) Advertising
9 1 (2.22%) Electronics
9 1 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) Developer
3 6 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Cloud Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Lead
4 5 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Data Scientist
4 5 (11.11%) Lead Data Scientist
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Product Manager
5 4 (8.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Programme Director
7 2 (4.44%) Data Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Sales Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.33%) NumPy
1 6 (13.33%) Pandas
1 6 (13.33%) Terraform
2 5 (11.11%) scikit-learn
2 5 (11.11%) XGBoost
3 3 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 2 (4.44%) CrewAI
4 2 (4.44%) LangChain
4 2 (4.44%) LangGraph
4 2 (4.44%) Model Context Protocol
4 2 (4.44%) REST
4 2 (4.44%) RESTful
4 2 (4.44%) Spring
4 2 (4.44%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.22%) jQuery
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth
5 1 (2.22%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.22%) PySpark
5 1 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.11%) Credit Risk
3 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.44%) AI Agents
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile Wallet
5 1 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.22%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Online Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Analytics
2 15 (33.33%) AI
3 13 (28.89%) DevOps
4 11 (24.44%) Digital Banking
5 10 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 8 (17.78%) Product Management
8 7 (15.56%) Agile
8 7 (15.56%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
8 7 (15.56%) Validation
9 6 (13.33%) Data Science
9 6 (13.33%) Generative AI
9 6 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 6 (13.33%) Microservices
9 6 (13.33%) Product Strategy
9 6 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
9 6 (13.33%) Roadmaps
10 5 (11.11%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) SQL
3 8 (17.78%) Java
4 4 (8.89%) C#
5 2 (4.44%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 3 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (4.44%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (2.22%) APMG
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) GDPR
2 5 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.11%) EU AI Act
3 2 (4.44%) PCI DSS
3 2 (4.44%) PMO
3 2 (4.44%) PSD2
3 2 (4.44%) QA
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) GRC
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) EnCase
2 2 (4.44%) FTK
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Databricks
4 3 (6.67%) OpenAI
5 2 (4.44%) Amplitude
5 2 (4.44%) Cellebrite
5 2 (4.44%) Informatica
5 2 (4.44%) Nuix
5 2 (4.44%) Relativity
6 1 (2.22%) EMC
6 1 (2.22%) Revolut
6 1 (2.22%) Workday